This site is a free toolkit.
It is provided by Lucy Faithfull Foundation - a child protection charity based in UK.
It is for everyone who cares about children – schools, police, social workers, NGOs, local and national governments.
It will help you prevent children from being sexually abused.
With this toolkit you can design a local plan that fits your needs.
This web site will help you:
Understand child sexual abuse.
Decide what kinds of child sexual abuse are a problem in your area, city, country.
Plan solutions that fit your needs.
See solutions others have used from around the world.
This ECSA toolkit is all about preventing the sexual abuse of children.
Download
Welcome to the ECSA toolkit.pdf
downloadwhat is child sexual abuse?
There are many forms of child sexual abuse.
Different places and cultures have different issues.
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non-contact
e.g. showing a child pornography, making a child watch sex
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contact
e.g. an adult touching a child's private parts for sexual pleasure, getting a child to touch an adult's private parts, rape
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sexual exploitation
e.g. giving food, accommodation or drugs in exchange for sex with a child
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online
e.g. adults making, sending or receiving sexual pictures to/from a child
Download
What is child sexual abuse.pdf
downloadhow to prevent child sexual abuse
Child sexual abuse is preventable - it is not inevitable.
It is a public health problem which requires interventions across all levels of society.
Steps towards prevention
The download document below explains the process of abuse and how abusers overcome barriers to abuse.
It also shows how those barriers can be made stronger, so that abuse is prevented.
These barriers involve:
- The individual at risk of abusing
- The child or young person at risk of being abused
- Protective adults and young people
Preventing abuse theory
The download document (below) outlines how child sexual abuse can be prevented by taking a public health approach to the problem.
The document explains what is required to address the problem effectively, using interventions and programmes targeting specific groups.
These interventions can be made at different stages of life and at various stages in the abuse process.
Here are some first steps you can take
Think about child sexual abuse in your community
What are the strengths in your community? What are the problems?
Bring people together
Who can you ask to help? Who can help prevent child sexual abuse?
Decide a way forward
Which problems are most common and need to change first?
Download
First planning meeting.pdf
downloadThese documents (below) will help you create a child sexual abuse prevention strategy
Developing your strategy
What to think about when planning a strategy? What sort of things should it include?
A working tool
Plan and record your own strategy.
Strategy template and examples
Example strategies which will help you when planning your own strategy.
Interventions and resources from across the globe
The map below shows where the international interventions and resources on this website have come from.
Identify interventions of interest
You can use the left hand search function below to find the interventions and resources that are most relevant for you.
Note: the descriptions of interventions and resources below are based on published research or documentation from the relevant organisation. Where available, evaluation information is included. Inclusion of an intervention or resource in this toolkit is not necessarily an indication of effectiveness; more of promise. When using an intervention or resource from this website, you will need to adapt it to make it relevant to your own context.
Please contact us with any feedback and information about additional interventions that could usefully be included:
Access to Justice
A service which advocates for children’s rights, provides free access to legal aid for child victims of sexual (and other) abuse and engages with communities to provide information about sexual abuse.
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Classroom Setting
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Group Work
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Public Education
An Exceptional Children's Guide to Touch
A book which aims to keep children safe by focussing on issues of physical touch; what is acceptable and what is problematic.
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Book/Guide
Assessing the Risk: Protecting the Child
A guide to assist practitioners to undertake assessments of the risk posed by a man who is known suspected to sexually offend against children but has not been adjudicated/is not in the criminal justice system.
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Book/Guide
Assessment and Treatment Programme for Women who have Sexually Abused a Child/Children
An assessment and treatment programme for adult women with allegations, convictions or admissions in relation to the sexual abuse of children.
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Group Work
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Individual Work
Be Safe - Stay Safe's Children's Programme
A group programme for children aged 8-13 (up to 14 for young people with learning disabilities) with worrying sexual behaviour and their parents/carers.
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Family Work
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Group Work
Be Safe! Prevention Programme
Be Safe! is a personal safety programme for children aged 5 to 9 years. Through positive, non-threatening, simple key messages and child-friendly learning resources. Be Safe! introduces young people to the concepts of: children's right; safe and supportive friendships; adult's responsibility to protect children from harm; privacy and simple and effective Personal Safety Rules.
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Classroom Setting
Becoming New Me
A cognitive-behavioural programme consisting of 166 hours of treatment for males aged 18 years or above, convicted of a sexual offence.
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Group Work
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Prison
Better Lives Booster
A cognitive-behavioural programme available for both non-intellectually disabled and intellectually disabled sex offenders, delivered in custodial settings and focussing on emotions, forming appropriate adult relationships and developing a relapse prevention plan.
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Group Work
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Prison
Blue Teddy Bear: Child Sexual Abuse Awareness Pins
The symbol of the Blue Teddy Bear was designed specifically to raise awareness of CSA and to show that the prevalence of CSA can be reduced.
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Public Education
Body Safety Training
A series of ten lessons for parents or teachers to deliver to children aged 3-8 which cover body safety as well as general safety.
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Classroom Setting
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Individual Work
Break the Silence
Three animations on DVD accompanied by discussion toolkits which examine child sexual abuse. 1) A child sexually abused by her father (Daughter). 2) another child abused by a paedophile (A Good Boy). 3) The story of two sisters who end up as sex slaves in a brothel.
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Classroom Setting
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Film
Chauraha
A programme for men and young boys at risk of violent and other offending.
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Group Work
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Mentoring
Chelsea's Choice
A theatre play which tells the story of ‘Chelsea’, a teenager who is sexually exploited performed by young to young people in schools and other learning environments.
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Classroom Setting
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Theatrical
Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention Workshop
A workshop delivered to secondary caregivers whereby information on child abuse and neglect is conveyed through use of videos, cases studies, activities and discussions.
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Classroom Setting
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Group Work
Childline Schools Service
A prevention programme delivered by trained volunteers in primary schools. Uses a large assembly and smaller interactive classroom sessions.
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Classroom Setting
Childline South Africa Advocacy
An Advocacy programme targeting the law and policy that supports prevention programmes at every level. Once a law or policy, or changes to it, have been passed or accepted, advocacy continues relating to its financing and implementation.
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Public Education
Childline Therapeutic Programmes for Children Harmed by Abuse
Therapeutic programmes for families where children have been harmed by sexual abuse. Childline staff deliver the progamme using play therapy, individual, group and family therapy.
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Counselling
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Family Work
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Group Work
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Individual Work
Children with Sexual Behaviour Problems Cognitive Behaviour Treatment Programme: School Age Group
A family-orientated, cognitive-behavioural, psycho-educational, and supportive treatment group designed to reduce or eliminate incidents of sexual behaviour problems.
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Family Work
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Group Work
Children with Sexual Behaviour Problems Cognitive Behavioural Treatment: Pre-School Programme
A family-orientated, cognitive-behavioural, psycho-educational, and supportive treatment group designed to reduce or eliminate incidents of sexual behaviour problems.
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Family Work
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Group Work
Circles of Support and Accountability
A programme which uses volunteers to support and hold to account a sex offender as they reintegrate into community.
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Mentoring
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Peer Support